Lily Allen says James Corden was once ‘flirtatious’ and a ‘beg friend’: ‘He’s not begging me anymore’

nypost.com:

Lily Allen has revealed new details about the early days of her friendship with James Corden.In the latest episode of her podcast, “Miss Me?,” the singer, 39, labeled the former “Late Late Show” host, 45, as once being “flirtatious” and a “beg friend.” “Beg friends,” British slang which translates to something along the lines of “hangers-on,” “sycophants” or, more plainly, people who “kiss arse,” were the subject of the podcast episode, aptly titled “Listen B—-!

Beggies Can’t Be Losers.”Allen co-hosts the BBC Sounds-produced pod with Miquita Oliver, 40, a British TV presenter, radio personality and Allen’s friend since childhood.

Oliver and Allen both met Corden back in 2008.“Yeah, James Corden was a bit of a beg friend for me,” Allen said in the new episode, which dropped Monday, July 29, while answering a listener’s question if she’d ever had any beg friends that were “actually famous.”Recalling that the “Prom” actor was a guest on her short-lived 2008 talk show “Lily Allen and Friends,” the “Smile” singer said that “[James] was very flirtatious with me, and we sort of made friends.

I introduced him to a group of my friends.”“I’d say if I’ve ever had a famous beggy friend it was James Corden, back in the day,” she continued. “He’s not begging me anymore,” she quipped. “I’m not begging him either.